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Ghana President heralds historic agreement to build a world-class W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Complex
GHANA’S President Nàna Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo heralded plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honouring the legacy of world-renowned black…
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Nigerians offer artworks to British Museum in new take on looted bronzes
A NEW guild of artists from Nigeria’s Benin City has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London…
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Tanzanian women see bright future in photography
LORRAINE Shose, a young woman from a suburb of Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam, looks forward to getting good…
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Covid-19: Vaccinations ramp up in Africa
AFRICAN countries have – in the past week – administered four times as many Covid-19 vaccines as they have in…
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Africans who made TIME’s 100 Most Influential People 2021
AMERICAN news magazine TIME on Wednesday released its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world this…
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Burkina Faso’s sex for food aid scandal draws government denial, lawsuit
TWO men have been accused of defamation after they allegedly lied to a Burkina Faso journalist in a recent report,…
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WHO, partners aim to get Africa 30 percent of needed doses by February
THE World Health Organisation(WHO) and its partners said they hope to provide Africa with about 30 percent of the Covid-19…
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Nigeria eyes July 2022 for German return of looted bronzes
NIGERIA has agreed with Germany for hundreds of artefacts stolen during colonial times to be returned from July next year…
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WHO-backed vaccine hub for Africa to copy Moderna Covid-19 shot
EFFORTS to develop an African base for Covid-19 vaccine production will focus on trying to replicate Moderna’s shot, but a…
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A tale of two Covid vaccine clinics: queues in Kenya, few takers in Atlanta
SEVERAL hundred people line up every morning, starting before dawn, on a grassy area outside Nairobi’s largest hospital hoping to…
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